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    The Future of War?

    A century ago, the introduction of the heavy machine gun made calvary obsolete along with the infantry frontal assault. While attacks were still made, they resulted in few advances and many casualties. Modern armies soon switched to tanks as the main offensive unit.

    Then the Yon Kippur War introduced the TOW, which made tanks highly vunerable. Now, the U.S. has "steel rain," a single round of which can devestate an entire armor division. Tanks may now be obsolete.

    So what will conventional war looks like in the future?
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    nothing, the era of conventional war is over.
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      The era of conventional war has been over for decades, in fact. It's all about asymmetric warfare now, so expect America to lose a whole bunch more wars in the future.
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        It will invlove nuclear tipped ants
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        • #5
          I think it will involve 'lasers'...
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          • #6
            Magnets! It will be with magnets!
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
              The era of conventional war has been over for decades, in fact. It's all about asymmetric warfare now, so expect America to lose a whole bunch more wars in the future.
              There's always nukes.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Provost Harrison
                I think it will involve 'lasers'...
                And sharks?
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                • #9
                  Mutated sea bass.
                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #10
                    ROV's piloted by teenagers (and others living with their parents) who have been tricked into thinking they are fighting futuristic warfare in a MMORPG. A l33t X-st1An h4xx0R will write a virus which hijacks the client to turn targetting control over from 'WWIII Online' to 'GTA: Vice City' to enact God's revenge on prostitutes.

                    Nanobots that harvest the iron from your red blood cells and use it to build a spike through your heart before moving to their next host... (in hindsight, this will be viewed as somewhat of a gaffe rather than the technological marvel it is received as.) Anemic patients will be the only survivors.

                    Giant Death Robots

                    That and psychological warfare fought with avatars like Tass'.

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                    • #11
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                      • #12
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                        • #13
                          why would speculation about the future belong in the history forum? isn't off topic a more appropriate category for such discussion?

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                          • #14
                            The future is the past, it's just a matter of perspective.

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                            One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                              Mutated fruit bats in the air, weaponized Roombas on land and trained suicide dolphins by sea.
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